A message from our Teacher

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Currently we have twenty two children in Room Two, eleven  boys and eleven girls. Three new students have started at Hiwinui school this year, the rest are the six students who spent Term 4 of 2020 in Room 2 and thirteen who have come through from Room 1. We have started off the year making a Classroom Treaty – To tatou Tiriti Akomanga. This helps us remember that we all have the right to learn, to be respected, to have our voices heard and to listen. We have talked about how we learn when we: use our manners, make mistakes, share, and are kind and laugh together. We are all working to progress our Pepeha further this year. Our goal is to present this in front of the Ruahine Ropu and the Hiwinui Hui during the year. In Literacy time a few of us are finishing learning the sounds that letters make. A small group are reading decodable readers and the rest of us are now reading Ready to Read books and continuing to progress our Liz Kane Literacy Code Knowledge. Each fortnight we have new Heart Words to learn. This is our comprehensive and individualised spelling programme. For Maths we are learning how to do our Number Knowledge fact track packets by ourselves and number of the day. We are beginning to use the Literacy and Numeracy tumble in Room 2 where we have to be self-managers and take responsibility to complete our learning tasks.    We now have the Learning Corridor built between Room’s one, two and three and this is a valuable addition in working space for the Ruahine Ropu students to gather and learn together. 
 
Rebecca Blatchford